I originally found out about italki about a year ago. I’d been living in Sevastopol, Ukraine and I was more or less the only foreigner in the town. I searched through several language learning forums and blogs and came across…

As opposed to my previous trip, on which I surrounded myself exclusively with Ukrainian, the situation this time round was a little different. I went to Lvov with a fellow native English speaker, who’s for all intents and purposes mono-lingual.…